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very hard to believe that the names of such great landmarks 
could get mixed, and that their identity can have been ever 
forgotten , as Mr. Parker supposes. The Maha Seya Dagaba on 
Mihintale kanda, full four and twenty miles away, is also plain 
to see. 
4. — Last Monastery on Tantri-malai. 
The last and greatest monastery of Tantri-malai ended in 
a tragedy. As we have not succeeded in discovering the 
ancient name of this place, we cannot trace its history, but 
tragedy, catastrophe, and sudden flight, or death, are plain 
to see in its archseology. 
Upon the rock which the dagaba crowns there is an image 
of Buddha, and below it another. 
The former is a sedent figure carved from the rock in 
high relief, seated upon a throne, with lions carved on the 
panels. The figure faces to the north and looks towards the 
dagaba. From almost its very feet there started a grand 
flight of broad low steps cut in the face of the rock, and 
designed to lead to the dagaba ; but they were never used. 
Their edges are as sharp as when the mason left them ; eight 
steps are finished, and half of the ninth. Then came calamity. 
On either side of the great sedent image, 8 ft. high upon 
his throne, the artist had designed four panels, each to 
contain a smaller sedent image some 3 ft. high. All of the 
eight panels, four on either side, are traced in the stone, 
but not one is finished. One has been roughly blocked out, 
another has been carved almost to the semblance of a man, 
others are hardly commenced, as they were on that evil day 
the craftsman left them. 
To the north of the dagaba, at the foot of the rock, an 
enormous image of Buddha was carved in the side of the 
hill. As he lies he is 40 feet long, but he was never finished. 
The work was very nearly done, but not quite. 
To the south-west of the dagaba, in the forest, is a stock 
of wedged pillars and coping stones. They lie where they were 
quarried, but they were never taken to their places. One long 
stone has a beaded edge cut with great care, but it was never 
used. 
